I have a sense of where to go with the Ruby story, but just do not have it in me tonight to whittle the next chapter out. Too tired. I will just say Thank You to my folks for raising me around the Bible. The world is weird. Progress says that all of our...
Read more →I’m super-pooped tonight for some reason, so tonight, snippets it is. – UCLA star and potential top pick in the NBA draft has already got a line of basketball shoes ready to sell to his fans. At $495 a pair. Talk about aiming for a target market. Not sure that one exists. I mean,...
Read more →I’ve had several good conversations with a work colleague this week about Christianity, and how it should impact a life. These conversations grew out of some reflections I had talking with a friend and also from considering the experiences shared by others I have known that felt similarly: Christianity is negative. The key complaint...
Read more →I’ve continued my slow trek through the Old Testament by striding through II Samuel over the last few weeks, and have been grateful to take a closer look at the life of David. There are moments when reading passages about him that I have breathed a sigh of relief and thought “If this guy...
Read more →In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as he saw fit.~ Judges 21:25 How interesting it is that this is the verse that concludes the Book of Judges. It aptly summarizes the history of Israel in this period as the nation, without clear leadership and convictions, tumults from strength into weakness, and...
Read more →“Both the one who makes people holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters.” Hebrews 2:11 Last week I wrote about a foray I took into the literature on my bookshelves related to shame. The topic remains at the...
Read more →For much of my adult life, I have wrestled with the power of shame, and its significance in the making and breaking of the self, and of relationships. I have struggled with its subversive destructiveness all of my life, and as a result thought as a younger man I would take some time one...
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